A few days ago Ben Crump posted a video online and expressed outrage in what he claimed was a white woman trying to steal a bike from a black man in New York City:

You can watch the video but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Because of this, Community Notes put a fact-check on it noting that the white woman paid for the bike rental and she was being robbed by a group of black men.

Here’s more on the story by the New York Post:

The lawyer for a Manhattan hospital worker accused of taking a Citi Bike from a young black man — who claimed that he paid for the two-wheeler — provided receipts that he says show she was the one who purchased the ride at the center of the viral incident.

The Bellevue Hospital employee — who was branded a “Karen” on social media afterward — rented the bike first, lawyer Justin Marino said in a statement to The Post Wednesday.

He also provided two Citi Bike receipts from May 12, which were timestamped just minutes apart.

The first receipt reviewed by The Post shows the bike being taken out before it was re-locked one minute later, which Marino said is the bike seen in the video.

The second receipt shows another bike being taken out a minute later from the same docking station and was the bike Marino said his client used to get home after being “heckled and pressured to find a new bike” by the group.

The hospital employee, who Marino says is a six-months-pregnant physician assistant, was placed on leave by NYC Health + Hospitals this week after her heated encounter with the men emerged online Saturday and has been viewed tens of millions of times.

 
The post provides more detail on what actually occurred between the nurse and the black men trying to take her bike:

He said after the health care worker wrapped up her 12-hour shift, she got on an available bike, “which no individuals were on or touching,” and paid for it through the Citi Bike app on her phone.

As she backed it up from the docking station, a group of five people approached her and claimed the bike was theirs, he said.

“One or more individuals in that group physically pushed her bike (with her on it) back into the docking station, causing it to re-lock,” Marino said in the written statement.

One of the individuals then covered the bike’s QR code, stopping her from paying for it again so she could leave, Marino said.

“In blocking the QR code, this individual’s arm was touching my client’s pregnant stomach, a condition of which she had made them aware,” he added. “Throughout this time and for the remainder of the video, roughly five individuals were telling her to get off the bike and heckling her.”

“The fact anyone would treat another person like this is tragic, especially a visibly pregnant woman,” he said.

The roughly 90-second clip that begins mid-confrontation shows the woman dressed in hospital-branded scrubs screaming for help as she tugs at the bike.

“Help! Help me! Please, help me,” she yells.

The young man kept his grip on the bike’s handlebars and repeatedly told the woman that he already paid to use that particular bike and it wasn’t hers.

“Get off me! Get off me, you’re hurting my fetus,” the woman then shouted as she pushed the man away.

“I’m not touching you! You’re putting your stomach on my hand,” the man replied.

Halfway through the clip, the hospital worker appears to start crying as another man in the same scrubs approached the melee to see what was going on.

The young man again claimed to the woman the bike was on his account and asked her to move before she rented another bike on the advice of her colleague.

The Post notes that the “NYC Health + Hospitals called the video disturbing” and put her on leave pending a review.

In other words, she’s being punished by the Hospital for something in which she did nothing wrong, all because loudmouths like Ben Crump spread outrage and misinformation.

Honestly, I’d have trouble trusting my employer if they treated me like this over an incomplete video in which I did nothing wrong. I’m sure she told them what happened and they didn’t believe her. What he Hospital should have done was leave her job intact while they review the incident.

As a side note, I love the fact that Community Notes nows shows up on embedded tweets. Musk is definitely doing good things at Twitter.